Re: New system property: p:platform?

/ Rui Lopes <rlopes@di.fc.ul.pt> was heard to say:
| Maybe it's something i'm not entirely understanding, but if the exact content
| (format?) should be implementation defined, it couldn't be used in a
| cross-platform way. If so, why bind the property to xproc's namespace?

I think the idea is that you might write things like this:

<p:when test="p:system-property('p:vendor') = 'Acme Systems'
              and p:system-property('p:platform') = 'Java'">
  ... use some step you know is defined on the Java platform ...
</p:when>
<p:when test="p:system-property('p:vendor') = 'Acme Systems'
              and p:system-property('p:platform') = '.NET'">
  ... use some step you know is defined on the M$ platform ...
</p:when>

I'm sort of ambivalent, but it seems like it might be useful.

Note to WG: I did add a few more properties on the basis of other
comments by Vasil.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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